Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

No idea about that. GNU project folks are well-known for deprecating man
pages.

I didn't. The man page and info manual are equally authoritative.
Send reports of mistakes or discrepancies to me.
In this case, as I said, the info manual contains the same text.
Chet
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